From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/sched: hold the tree lock while resetting a qdisc being destroyed
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 17:14:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106161455.2412769-1-edumazet@kernel.org> (raw)
Since commit 47e8dbb6e763 ("net/sched: do not reset queues in graft
operations"), qdisc_graft() and mq_graft() no longer reset the qdisc
they remove, so it can still hold packets when qdisc_put() destroys it.
__qdisc_destroy() then calls qdisc_reset() without any lock, while
qdisc timers keep running until ops->destroy() stops them.
For instance sfq_perturbation() can rehash the SFQ queues under the
sleeping root lock, while sfq_reset() dequeues and frees the same
packets, corrupting skb lists.
__qdisc_destroy() has called qdisc_reset() without the lock its comment
requires since commit 4909daba3784 ("net_sched: use qdisc_reset() in
qdisc_destroy()"), relying on dev_deactivate() having already purged
the queue under the lock. Commit 47e8dbb6e763 ("net/sched: do not
reset queues in graft operations") removed that purge for graft
operations.
Take sch_tree_lock() around qdisc_reset() in __qdisc_destroy().
This is the lock these timers take, and the lock every other
qdisc_reset() caller holds. __qdisc_destroy() runs under RTNL and in
process context, since ops->destroy() can sleep.
Also update the qdisc_reset() comment, which named qdisc_lock(qdisc)
while most callers hold the root lock.
Fixes: 47e8dbb6e763 ("net/sched: do not reset queues in graft operations")
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
---
The issue was discovered by an AI code review agent. It was confirmed
on a KASAN kernel, without kernel modifications, by running this loop
on four dummy devices in parallel ("fill" is a small sendmmsg() program
queuing 40000 UDP packets to 1024 different ports):
tc qdisc replace dev $d root handle 1: tbf rate 100kbit burst 4k \
limit 100m
tc qdisc add dev $d parent 1:1 sfq perturb 1 flows 1024 divisor 1024 \
depth 127 limit 100000
./fill $peer 40000
sleep 0.$((RANDOM % 10))
tc qdisc del dev $d root
It triggered within seconds a slab-use-after-free in sfq_dequeue()
called from sfq_reset(), and a general protection fault in sfq_rehash()
called from sfq_perturbation().
With this patch, 150 iterations on four devices completed without any
KASAN or lockdep report. The tc-testing qdisc selftests also pass on
a KASAN + lockdep kernel without any report.
net/sched/sch_generic.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index d2e0d20f3ba1cddb82987a559d49f6685a756cc1..e39745d58bfcd2c35cbc9b510b48062ba50ddda3 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ struct Qdisc *qdisc_create_dflt(struct netdev_queue *dev_queue,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(qdisc_create_dflt);
-/* Under qdisc_lock(qdisc) and BH! */
+/* Under sch_tree_lock(qdisc) and BH! */
void qdisc_reset(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
{
@@ -1154,8 +1154,13 @@ static void __qdisc_destroy(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
#endif
gen_kill_estimator(&qdisc->rate_est);
+ /* A detached qdisc can still hold packets, and its timers
+ * (sfq_perturbation(), ...) may run until ops->destroy() stops
+ * them. They hold the sleeping root lock, take it here as well.
+ */
+ sch_tree_lock(qdisc);
qdisc_reset(qdisc);
-
+ sch_tree_unlock(qdisc);
if (ops->destroy)
ops->destroy(qdisc);
--
2.53.0
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